Thupten Jinpa

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Authors of Tibetan Works Category:Editors Category:Professors Category:Translators Category:Tsadra Fellows and Grantees
FirstName / namefirst	Thupten
LastName / namelast	Jinpa
MainNamePhon	Thupten Jinpa
nametitlepre	Geshe Lharampa
SortName	Jinpa, Thupten
bio	Thupten Jinpa Langri (b. 1958) is a former Tibetan monk and a Geshe Lharampa with B.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in religious studies, both from Cambridge University. Since 1985, he has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama and has translated and edited numerous books by the Dalai Lama, including the New York Times Bestsellers Ethics for the New Millennium and The Art of Happiness. Jinpa’s own publications include works in Tibetan, English translations as well as books, the latest being Tsongkhapa: A Buddha in the Land of Snows and Illuminating the Intent, a translation of Je Tsongkhapa's commentary on Entering the Middle Way. Jinpa is the general series editor of the 32-volume Bod kyi tsug lag gces btus series, whose translations are published in English as The Library of Tibetan Classics. His current projects include the editing of classical Indian Buddhist texts from Tengyur for a special anthology known as Rgya gzhung gnad che bdam bsgrigs (Selected Indian Buddhist treaties). He is the main author of CCT (Compassion Cultivation Training), an eight-week formal program developed at Stanford University, and co-founder and president of the Compassion Institute. He is the Chair of Mind and Life Institute, founder of the Institute of Tibetan Classics, and an adjunct professor at the School of Religious Studies at McGill University. Jinpa lives in Montreal and is married with two daughters. (Source: Thupten Jinpa)
YearBirth	1958
associatedwebsite	http://www.tibetanclassics.org
languageprimary	Tibetan
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	Library of Tibetan Classics
affiliationsecondary	Tsadra Foundation; Mind & Life Institute
religiousaffiliation	Dalai Lama, 14th;Ganden Monastic University
StudentOf	The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
phduniversity	Cambridge University
education	B.A., Ph.D. Cambridge University, England
IsInGyatsa	No
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